Reese Witherspoon has paid tribute to her "sweet husband" on their fifth wedding anniversary.

Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon

The 'Wild' star has taken to Instagram to share a sweet message for Jim Toth as they mark five years of marriage.

Captioning a picture of the pair, she wrote: "Happy anniversary to my sweet husband! I love you, JT! #5years (sic)"

Meanwhile, the 40-year-old actress - who has three-year-old son Tennessee with Jim and 16-year-old daughter Ava and son Deacon, 12, from a previous relationship - recently revealed she is taking a step back from acting to make her family her top priority.

She explained: "My family comes first. I haven't made a movie probably in a year and a half. I'm focused on my business, but also I want to spend time with my teenage daughter. It's terrifying that my oldest child is about to leave [home to go to university]. I can't imagine not sitting at the foot of her bed, saying, 'So what happened at school today?'

"You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock to tell them everything they need to know. My kids make me laugh every day. And they're so supportive. As I get older, they understand things I worried about - the guilt of being gone - in a way that's so healing for me, when they say, 'Mom, we know you love what you do. We love to watch you do what you do.'"